Swords, plowshares, photos & art

Slate features Gitmo in Black and White, a Magnum photographers’ slideshow documenting the prisoner detention center at Guantanamo Bay. (If there’s a more surreal location for a Starbucks, I’ve yet to hear it.)

Unflinching war photographer James Nachtwey has been honored at the TED Conference. They’ve created a video discussing his & others’ work, and Nachtwey is covered in the documentary War Photographer (3-minute excerpt). [Via]

Hoping for a more peaceful world, Retired Weapons depicts another future for military hardware. (I hoped for a bit more from this one, but maybe it’s deeper than I’m seeing.) [Via]

Handy CS3 configurators

With all the new products Adobe is introducing, figuring out which Suite configuration(s) make sense based on your needs can be a bit challenging. The company created a Flash-based app that lets you view configurations according to job function ("I want to make videos, plus print some stuff…"), but I like the way Web developer Mark Eagleton (not affiliated with Adobe) cuts to the chase with his little configurator: pick the apps you want & view the different pricing options for getting them. Nice, and right to the point. (Thanks, Mark.) [Via John Dowdell]